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Check out one of the stars of our film Alive & Kicking, Evita Arce, as she dances the Apache with her partner Michael Jagger in front of a slightly scandalized audience! They use a great mix of tango and swing moves to recreate this classically “violent” French dance. Online publication Atlas Obscura picked up the […]

Hello wonderful backers! We are so excited to announce that our film has been picked up and will be distributed through Magnolia Pictures! Next month they will be taking the film to the Cannes Film Market, where they will be starting the process of getting international distribution. This film will be going out to the entire […]

Hello wonderful supporters! We had a blast premiering our film at SXSW! Our newly titled documentary, Alive & Kicking, premiered three times over March 13 through 16, and was wonderfully received! Check out our reviews: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/alive-kicking-sxsw-review-872967 http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2016-03-13/sxsw-film-review-alive-and-kicking/ The audiences loved it too! Take a look: https://vimeo.com/160174259 And here is our new trailer: https://vimeo.com/157913214 But successful premiere aside, there’s […]

Hello to all of our amazing backers, I know we’ve been quiet lately, but we have been working hard and steadily on the film, and we have some GREAT NEWS to catch you up on. Our film will premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March! The SXSW festival is the perfect place […]

Camp Hollywood 2015 is right around the corner, and we hope to see you there! This year’s Camp Hollywood is Labor Day Weekend, September 4-7, at the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles, and we’re excited to be back shooting videos for the event. Come to our table and say hello. We’ll have our T-shirts available for purchase, as […]

We’re making excellent progress on the documentary; things are moving fast and furious now! We’re working hard to dot all the Ts and cross all the eyes (wait, that’s not how that goes…). Our post schedule now has us working with our composer. Of course, we will have great swing music in the film, but […]

Great News! Now that we are close to finishing the film, we’re thrilled that we have fulfilled one of our backer rewards! We’ve completed our compilation of lessons and performances from Lindy Hop’s legends and today’s top swing dancers, including Frankie Manning, Jean Veloz, Chazz Young, Dawn Hampton, Erin Stevens, Peter Flahiff, Rusty Frank, Kevin […]

We have exciting news! You may have heard of Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas’ facility that does the sound for very big budget movies and has won 18 Academy Awards. As their schedule allows, they will, on rare occasions, take on a small film they really like for an insanely reduced rate. We just found out […]

There’s a lot going on right now at Swing the Doc! As we mentioned in our last post, we are so proud to have a PICTURE LOCK of the film! That means we are so much closer to finishing it! We just need to raise additional funds to get post-production completed, and we’re working on […]

We have some very exciting news: We have finished editing the movie! And it’s really good! This is such a big deal. The hardest and longest part is finally behind us. The next part of post-production includes color correction, sound mixing, scoring, licensing archival materials, and more. This is, unfortunately, the most expensive part of […]